Why rename rutgers

Throughout his career, Holloway said, he was often the first Black man to hold a position, becoming a dean at Yale University and provost at Northwestern University. That trend continues as he takes the reins at Rutgers amid financial and health woes brought on by the coronavirus, paired with a national reckoning on racism, police brutality and mass incarceration. Holloway said many of the initial attempts to diversify Rutgers will likely include back office changes, particularly with most students staying off campus this fall.

He hopes to retain current talent at the university, but also to diversify the faculty. But he noted the problems exist throughout higher education and are not specific to Rutgers.

To change them, he said, will require the school to embark on a long road that includes far more reform than renaming buildings. What you stand for is what defines you Conservative students on college campuses are marginalized, threatened, and silenced by threatening students who oppose their views, or radicalized liberal professors or administrators. Campus Reform—and readers like you—are pushing back.

Progressives would rather threaten you with violence, silence your conservative views, or call for you to be "canceled" from our society if you oppose them. They say your views are dangerous, hateful, fearful, or racist. They have it all wrong.

What we stand for defines us—it always has. We can no longer remain silent. It is time for conservatives young and old to unite as a single voice to boldly proclaim what we stand for and oppose the mob. Will you join with us, select the principles you stand for, and sign your name below? Every other state school in the nation is named like that, and I truly believe the school would do better with recruitment — both academic and athletic — with the rename.

So yeah. Why not. Piece of cake. But maybe New Jerseyans — the progressive bunch we are — want to take it a step further and right the wrong of being named after a slave owner.